The Roman villa of l'Albir: baths beside the modern shore

A few streets from l'Albir's beach, the open-air Villa Romana museum changes the age of the neighbourhood in an instant. Low walls mark the rooms of a late Roman estate, including its baths. Interpretation on site helps turn those outlines into a household that used the same favourable shore long before today's promenade and apartments.

The local story

The villa's baths were built in the later fourth century AD and include the sequence of warm, hot and cold spaces expected in Roman bathing. The municipality and the University of Alicante have excavated and presented the remains since 2008, and MARQ records the site as a public museum. The displays make everyday choices about heating, water and comfort easier to see than the walls alone.

Plan the visit

Enter from Bulevard dels Músics and check the museum's current hours before visiting. Take the time to follow the room sequence rather than looking for a single spectacular mosaic. Keep to the raised visitor route and leave all surfaces untouched. Afterwards, walk to the present-day seafront: the short distance between villa and beach is the point of the story.

How it connects

The villa adds a Roman chapter to l'Alfàs del Pi's coast, between Benidorm's urban bay and Altea's old town.

Sources

Written in September 2026 using Ajuntament de l'Alfàs del Pi.